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PICTURE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, 1907.

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OLAF S. OLSON, OF ROSHOLT, WISCONSIN.

PICTURE-HANGER.

Application filed March 6, 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17, 1908.

Serial No. 360,858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lnown that I, OLAF S. OLSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rosholt, in the county of Portage, State of V\*"isconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Hangers;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to male and use the same.

This invention relates to picture hangers and has for its object toobviate the repeated adjustments heretofore necessary in order to hang apicture straight. In any event it has been necessary, when hanging thepictures at an angle to the wall, to drive'two or more nails into thewall upon which the lower edge of the picture frame is designed to rest.If these nails were not driven in the proper straight line it becamenecessary to remove one of them and drive it into the wall at some otherpoint until the proper adjustment has been reached. By the employment ofmy device the picture can be hung at any desired angle with respect tothe wall and by the use of but one nail, from which the hanger issuspended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing the hanger inuse and in cheating in dotted lines the manner in which the angle ofinclination of the picture with respect to the wall may be varied, Fig.2 is a front elevation of the hanger showing the same in foldedposition, 3 is a similar view showing the hanger in open position, Fig.4 is a detail view in front elevation of the upper end portion of aslightly modified form of hanger showing in full lines the foldedposition and in dotted lines the open position, and, Fig. 5 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 4 showing a still further modification of the hanger andillustrating in full lines the folded position and in dotted lines theother positions which may be assumed by the parts of the hanger.

Referring more specifically to the drawings the hanger is shown in Figs.1, 2 and 3 as being formed of a strand of wire which is bent upon itselfat its middle as at 10 to form a nail engaging loop and a pair of legswhich, adjacent this loop 10 diverge slightly outwardly as at 11 and arethence bent sharply inwardly toward each other as at 12 to form notchesthe purpose of which will be presently explained.

I The wire from which the hanger is formed is. resilient and thetendency of the legs which are indicated by the numeral 13, is toseparate and extend in diverging lines and in order that these legs maysupport a picture frame, I provide each of the legs at its lower endwith an outwardly bent portion 14. which terminates in an upwardly bentportion 15 between which latter portion and the corresponding portion ofthe legs is received the lower edge of the picture frame, the extremeupper ends of the portion 15 being bent over as at 16 to form ltnobs andthereby prevent injury to the frame.

In order that the hanger may be conneeted with the picture frame to morerigidly support the same and in order that it may be folded to occupybut a minimum space when not in use, I provide a connecting wire 17which has its end bent to form eyes 18 through which the legs areengaged it being understood that this engagment permits of slidingmovement of the connecting member upon the legs. As will be observed inFig. 2 the connecting member when ongaged upon the body portions of thelegs will hold them substantially in parallel re lation which is theirfolded position but that when the member has its eyes engaged with thenotches 12, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, the legs will be permitted tospread apart from each other and when in this position the hanger isopen and ready to support a picture. The means for connecting the hangerin a positive manner with the picture frame, comprises an arm which isformed of a strand of wire loosely coiled at one of its ends around theconnecting member 17 as indicated by the numeral 19 whereby it will behingedly connected with the said connecting member and this strand ofwire is bent from its coiled portion slightly inwardly as at 20 to bringit in a line with the middle of the coil and with the connecting member17. At or adjacent its middle this arm is looped as at 21 and its atfree end is provided with an eye 22 which is engaged with a screw eye 23the latter being adapted to be screwed into the back of the pictureframe.

From the foregoing it will be observed that when the hanger is suspendedby means of its nail engaging loop 10 and a picture frame is seated atits lower edge between the portions 15 and the legs proper, the screw leye 23 being engaged with the upper portion member for the legs whichcomprises a short of the frame, the frame will be supported at an anglewith respect to the wall. This angle may be varied by bending the arm atits loop portion 21 as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of thedrawings. Furthermore if it is not desired to employ a nail to supportthe hanger, a cord 24 is tied at one of its ends to the loop 12 and atits other end to a molding hook 25.

It is sometimes desirable to support the han er by two nails instead ofone or by a stap e, where a heavy picture is to be hung and in orderthat this may be accomplished I have desi ned the form of hanger shownin Fig. 4 of tie drawings. In this form the wire is bent at its middleto form a central nail engaging loop 26 which permits of the hangerbeing suspended from one nail, and a pair of loops 27 which are formedby bending the wire upon each side of the central loop 26. The means forconnecting the hanger with the picture frame in a positive manner hasits several parts indicated by the same numeral as in the preceding formof the invention but with the addition of the suffix a and in the samerelative position of the connecting member for the legs and the legsthemselves produce the same results in this form of the invention as inthe preceding form.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings there is illustrated a form which is similarto the form shown in Fig. 4 as regards the suspension means or loops butthe notches 28 in this latter form are greater in number than in the twopreceding forms and are formed by corrugating the legs which of courseresults in a number of notches in each leg into which the eye ends ofthe connecting member for the legs may interchangeably seat therebyvarying the degree of divergence of the legs to suit picture frames ofvarious lengths.

What is claimed is 1. A hanger of the class described comprising a pairof legs having a tendency to separate, said legs being arranged at theirI lower ends for engagement with the lower edge of a picture frame orthe like, a member connecting the legs and slidable thereon to hold thele s against such separationand to permit suc separation, and an arm connected with the connecting member and with the frame to hold the same atan angle a with respect to the legs.

prising a pair of legs having a tendency to separate, said legs beingarran ed at their lower ends for engagement with the lower edge of apicture frame or the like, said legs being notched at correspondingpoints, a member connecting the legs and slidable thereon to hold thelegs against separation and when moved into engagement with the notchesto permit such separation of the legs, and a member pivotally connectedwith the said member and with the picture frame to pold the same at anangle with respect to the egs.

3. A hanger of the class described comprising a pair of legs having atendency to separate, said legs being arran 'ed at their lower ends forengagement wit the lower edge of a picture frame or the like, said legsbeing notched at corresponding points, a member connecting the legs andslidable thereon to hold the legs against separation and when moved intoengagement with the notches to permit such separation of the legs, and amember pivotally connected with the said member and with the pictureframe to hold the same at an angle with respect to the legs, the saidframe supporting member being adjustable to vary the angle ofinplination of the frame with respect to the egs.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signai ture, in presence of twowitnesses.

OLAF S. OLSON.

Witnesses CARL RosHoLT, SENE RosI-IoLT.

2. A hanger of the class described com--

